Mostly delivered as lectures at Cambridge, these essays spend five chapters on Dickens and several more on Thackeray, then turn to the Victorian background, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell and the Barsetshire novels, where Q argues that Trollope ranks among the greatest and raciest of English novelists.
Warm, opinionated criticism from the editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse, a fine companion for readers of the Victorian novel. Download the free EPUB.